Tom Steyer's Glass House

The anti-Keystone billionaire throws stones at the Kochs, but what about his motives?

By

Kimberley A. Strassel

April 24, 2014 7:06 p.m. ET

The psychiatric world defines "projection" as the act of denying unpleasant qualities in yourself, while attributing them to others. Consider liberal billionaire Tom Steyer's riff this week about the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers.

Mr. Steyer took exception in a C-SPAN interview to comparisons between his big-dollar funding of Democrats with the Koch brothers' big-dollar funding of Republicans. The Kochs' priorities "line up perfectly with their pocketbooks—and that's not true for us," said Mr....